Educational apparatus



M. A. M. HAUPT. EDUCATIONAL APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4, 1920.

1,394,620, Patented 00. 25, 19251 Z7206WZ5Z WED STATES area.

my ALDEN monean' HAUFL, or cmcaeo, 'mmorsmuca'rronar. arrana'rus.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Get. 25, 1921.

Application filed June 4, 1920. Serial No. 386,5?6.

Improvements in Educational Apparatus,

of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to educational toys and particularly to an apparatus whereby young children, in play, may be encouraged and taught to recognize words as units and thereby to read.

In the drawings, which represent an illustrative embodiment of the invention;

Figure 1 is a plan view of one of the boards and blocks employed, and

Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

I provide a series of boards 1 of any suitable material upon each of which is displayed prominently the icture of some par- .ticular article or anima as for instance a pig. Immediately above the picture is printed the name Pig. Below the picture as a recess 2. I provide a series of blocks 3 which will fit the recess, one of which bears the word Pig. The childs task is to match the word above the picture with one below it by block intothe recess. In this task the child learns to recognize words as units, each word having a distinct appearance, a method of teaching a child to read far superior'to that of teaching him the letters of the alphabet and then to form letters together.

In this task the childs attention, it should be noted, is concentrated on the wordit is the word which he must match. Each time, however, he compares the'wordon theboard with that on the block he is attempting to use, he must look at the picture since the picture is between the two. Thus the association of the thing with its name is reinforced and driven home to the fullest possible extent.

words by putting those This association nevertheless is efiected word whenever he sees it and to pick it out from a' large number of others.

The use of the apparatus herein disclosed containing icking out and inserting the correct concentrates the attention of the child upon the appearance of a word, establishing therewith by association, the' picture of a thing, without confusing therewith other associations or permitting success except by direct comparison of the two duplicate words involved. In the particular illustrative embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, a single picture appears upon each of a series of boards; of course numerous pictures might be presented upon the same board and other modifications made within the scope of the invention.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. An educational toy comprising a board having thereon a picture, a name corresponding to the picture, and a recess; and a block a duplicate of the name and adapted to fit into the recess, said first mentioned name and recess being on opposite sides of the picture. I

2. Aneducational toy comprising a board having thereon a picture, and a recess; a name corresponding to the picture, a series of blocks each bearing a name, one of said names being a duplicate of the first mentioned name, others bein diiierent, a plurality of said blocks being adapted to fit into said recess.

3. An educational toy comprising a board having thereon a picture, 7 a name corresponding to the picture, and a recess; a series of blocks each bearing a name, one of said names being a duplicate of the first mentioned name, a plurality of said blocks being adapted to fit into said recess, said first mentioned name and recess being on opposite sides of the picture.

.4. An educational toy comprising aboard having a word thereon, and a recess; a pluralit of blocks each containing a word includlng said first mentioned word and ot ers and each adapted to fit into the recess.

5. An educational toy, comprising a board having a picturethereon, aname corresponding to the picture fixed to the board above. the-picture, and a recess below the picture, and a plurality of blocks, one thereof containin a duplicate of said name, each of said b ocks being adapted to be fitted by a child into said recess.

In witness whereof, .I hereunto subscribe my name this 21st day of May, A. D., 1920.

MARY ALDEN MORGAN HAUPT. 

